Oh my! The P4!?!?!

[JungleMan1]

[quote]Originally posted by Sowulo:
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While you might well be right about the price, the processor speed would still be in the range that it is. Why? Because even without competition, Intel would still want us to keep upgrading as often as possible to keep getting more of our cash. Need an example? Microsoft doesn't have much competition and keeps coming out with new versions of Windows. Intuit releases a new version of Quicken every year but hasn't significantly changed the program in quite some time. The trick in sales is to get the most you can as often as you can....</strong><hr></blockquote>

Sowulo is absolutely right.

One of the reasons Windows XP has such staggering requirements is because it needs to be that way. This is to boost PC sales. If it ran perfectly on a Pentium II (although I did take it for a spin on a Pentium II with 256mb PC100 and it ran pretty well) then who would need a new computer to use it?

[CPUZappa]

Warning: ...the following is a VENT/RANT alert...
please stand by!

[quote]Originally posted by Darren Wilson:
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I will do

I buy what the hell I want to buy and not what hardware sites & reviews recommend!!!! Unlike most of the forum users here I make my own decisions and don't rely on information from others to make my mind up. If you want to buy an Athlon then that is your perogative, if I want to buy Intel then that is mine, I am just so friggin' sick of all the AMD marks here going on & on & on about how 'good' the AMD chips are when only a very small minority of us here can actually see the truth behind things, & what am I using currently??? An AMD based system. The first & last one that I own, even though I have had no problems with it.
At least when Intel manufacture something, it will work straight out from the off and not require a seperate daughterboard (i.e. the thermal diode scenario we are currently going through).

Man , I am soon going to give up on forums totally as they are not good for my blood pressure!!!!!!!!!</strong><hr></blockquote>

[Darren Wilson]

Thats not a rant

[Daemon]

Anyone have any problems with there p4??

I got 24 new HP PC's in and im testing them and getting them ready for the users.

Any ways there p4 1.7ghz

When I use them there fast but kinda sluggish like they lag. Although there quick It just seems that they could be smoother like my AMD and my G4.

Just woundering.

Might be the HP Main Board though, since we all know compaq/HP boards

I tryed talking them inot getting alienware Pcs but they didnt listen

[nytiger73]

If Intel makes such good processors then would someone PLEASE tell me why EVERYTIME they release a new chip there is ALMOST ALWAYS a problem where the need to be recalled. The original Pentium had a math error, the PIII Socket 370's had a problem with some of the Socket 370 mainboards, I think the original Slot A's had a problem, the P4's had a problem.

At least with AMD they work, and they work well. And they are faster in my instances than Intel chips. And they are 1/2 the price!

[Quiet Thunder]

[quote]Originally posted by Darren Wilson:
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Man , I am soon going to give up on forums totally as they are not good for my blood pressure!!!!!!!!!</strong><hr></blockquote>

Don't quit them all!!! We need ya!!

[ßracius]

I don't use either AMD or Intel! I simply stick my finger in the socket and BLAMO! I am a digital god!

[Gollo]

[quote]Originally posted by Bracius:
<strong>I don't use either AMD or Intel! I simply stick my finger in the socket and BLAMO! I am a digital god! </strong><hr></blockquote>

You too? And here I thought I was the only one who did that!

[ßracius]

[quote]Originally posted by Gollo:
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You too? And here I thought I was the only one who did that!</strong><hr></blockquote>

My dad said he was learning about computer when I was an embryo. One data he stuck a parallel cable you know where and at the same time a radioactive comet struck our house at the same time a neighborhood power surge right when there was a solar ecplise right when a ice cream truck turned on to our street and here I am today. A digital god.

[format c:]

I prefer Intel CPU's since they run cooler , I have a k6 2 500 based system that runs good , I just find that AMD CPU's run warmer

[Daemon]

cooling is ez, speed is what im looking for. (both amd and intel are stable) Just that as long as AMD lives they will always be faster. Though my g4 spanks. Cant wait tell the new g5 comes out drool

[Sowulo]

This has gone way beyond the original topic and we don't need anymore AMD/Intel 'debates.'

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